What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored.

Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another.

A vocation is the backbone of life.

You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!

We feign pity when we want to demonstrate our ascendancy over feelings of hostility: but usually in vain. Whenever we notice this,there is an accompanying surge in those hostile sensations.

We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths.